Sure, eventually,we all need to grow up. It sucks, but growing up is usually a necessary progression that we American's tend to go through in our early thirties. By that time, college has become a distant memory, we met someone,made plans, bought a house, had a kid. Blammo, we become our parents, working two jobs to pay the mortgage and stressing over trivial shit like 401Ks and wondering where the fuck all of our hair went.
Sure parts of us try still yearn for those days of carefree youth, but we have responsibilities dammit, and other parts of us secretly like playing the grownup.Filmmakers, I imagine, are just like us in this sense. One day they are making movies for the pure fun of it and the next thing you know they are producing films whose catering budget is twice as large as their first independent feature and telling stories with a message and are no longer fun at all.
Thank you for refusing to grow up and continuing to have fun while making your movies.
I sat down watched the Texas Wunderkind's latest feature, which evolved from a fake trailer from his last film. I must say, that it was one of the most enjoyable time I had watching a movie since Pirhana 3D. The plot was nonsensical, the violence was gratuitous, and the action was over the top. In other words, it was a perfect escape via Bluray. My favorite part was the scene involving the bad guy's intestines.
Totally fucking awesome!
As are all the hot chicks that Machete gets to bang...
Or, at least snuggle with...
Speaking of Jessica Alba...
Is it just me, or is actually getting hotter as she gets older? Heck I almost "forget" to return the Bluray to Netflix just so I can watch all the parts that she was in again (as well as the intestine gag again).
Don't get me wrong though. Machete does feature a massage. A few of them in fact and not just the important message of Machete's are sharp.. It tackles issues such as illegal immigrants, dirty politics, drug cartels, and even religion, but the seriousness of these various issues are all nicely frosted over with a heavy heaping of sugary mayhem.
Funny enough, the next day, it was as if the cable box was reading my mind, because AMC decided to show one of Rodriguez's earlier works: From Duck to Dawn (which features a much younger Danny Trejo) and watching it while sipping on tequila, I could not help but marvel how little his style has changed throughout the years. While some might take it as a sign of creative stagnation, I take it as a sign that he is still having a kick ass time doing what he loves.
And for that we can all be thankful.
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